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Service creation apparatus for a communications network

  • US 5,907,607 A
  • Filed: 01/15/1997
  • Issued: 05/25/1999
  • Est. Priority Date: 04/21/1994
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A service creation system for a communications network, said system comprising:

  • a set of software tools for use in creating and/or modifying services available to users of the network including more than one level of service creation environment,said levels having interfaces therebetween, and having different respective toolsets associated therewith such that selected different sets of operations offered by the service creation system are made available at different levels, andwherein at least two of said levels are each provided with means to generate or access different respective types of software entity, wherein;

    a) a first of said levels has means to generate or access service application features which comprise code objects which can be deployed in elements of the network; and

    b) a second of said levels hasi) means to generate or access marketable service features, each marketable service feature comprising a reference to one or more service application features of the first level, together with graphical definition data for modifying or inputting provisionable aspects of said service application features by means of a graphical interface, andii) means to generate or access service packages, communicable to a third of said levels, each service package comprising a set of marketable service features or references to a set of marketable service features, together with at least one service template, the service template providing a tested expression of a service with embedded rules to impose constraints on operations by a user at said third of said levels to customize a service.

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